Convert the units of duration from days to hours Microsoft Project |
- Convert the units of duration from days to hours
- TBD or Blank Date Option
- Contract Resource loading Help
- Project reader tool? Freely available?
- MS Project Professional 2002 Dual Project Managers
- Hiding and unhiding columns in a plan
- Problem opening enterprise resources
- Max Date Limitation
- How can I assign a task to a group of resources in Project?
- How do I get a Text field to show up in the Resource Usage display
- Strikethrough Font in Project
- Sharing Project Data
- Project management in Zimbabwe
- Changing durations display from hrs. to days
- Can Project be used for production and asset management?
- Why won't my baselined Project Plan decrease in size after deleti.
- filtering and viewing the Gantt
- Task "Locked-out" for Bookings on P Server 2003
- Can I use Microsoft Project to schedule teacher resources and cla.
- 3rd party viewers
- Microsoft Visio 2003
- Huge projects managing
- Need a viewer for Project
- Milestone date calculation logic
- How do I schedule tasks without ANY constraints?
| Convert the units of duration from days to hours Posted: 01 Oct 2004 03:31 AM PDT Hi KD, Try Tools --> Macro --> Macros. Select the Format_Duration macro. Choose Run and select hours. Hope this helps. Julie hours for all tasks of |
| Posted: 30 Sep 2004 08:36 AM PDT Hi, On top of John's precious remarks, you may also consider the following. One could argue that Project shouldn't even display Start and Finish fields, only Early Start, Late Start, Early Finish and Late Finish. The whole point is that you have to manage between these limits. And also this: when you DO fix a date (not that this is recommended but new users to Project just seem to need that for survival) by a Must Option that will be visible in the Indicator column. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "Bootney" <com> schreef in bericht news:237301c4a703$35e53210$gbl... |
| Contract Resource loading Help Posted: 30 Sep 2004 08:22 AM PDT Hi, Enter a fixed cost it will add to the tiny resource cost HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "HDLF" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:25e101c4a71e$ac08eca0$gbl... |
| Project reader tool? Freely available? Posted: 30 Sep 2004 08:00 AM PDT Check out Steelray -- http://www.steelray.com "Bootney" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:237e01c4a703$7cc9ffd0$gbl... |
| MS Project Professional 2002 Dual Project Managers Posted: 30 Sep 2004 05:31 AM PDT Thank you Marcus. I appreciate your help. you (or the Project this project (under category (under Available Available Projects)--plus, settings on this page. this is necessary |
| Hiding and unhiding columns in a plan Posted: 30 Sep 2004 04:49 AM PDT I suggest that if you are freqently displaying the same set of columns for presentation that you create a table and view for this purpose. Start with the table. Go to views menu, tables , more tables, new table and define one the way you like. Call it "Presentation" or something you can remember and find easily. Then go to view menu, views. more views. new view and create a view based on this table. Make sure that the "show in menu" option is selected. Then from the view menu select that view. Make any last adjustments to it and save your file. Switch back to the gantt view or whatever you like to do work or tracking of the schedule and when you need to make a presentation click on the presentation view and it will be formatted just the way you want it. I typically have a tracking view, a presentation view and a scratch view (where fields are all over the place as required for whatever I'm trying to do at the time) for my projects. -Jack "JulieD" <net.au> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... in |
| Problem opening enterprise resources Posted: 30 Sep 2004 03:40 AM PDT Hi Keith, In future, try posting on the server newsgroup. Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/. Mike Glen Project MVP Keith wrote: |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2004 07:52 PM PDT Hi Rod love the idea of a scapegoat column - can i use it in my next class when we're customising fields :) Cheers JulieD "Rod Gill" <com> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... |
| How can I assign a task to a group of resources in Project? Posted: 29 Sep 2004 05:51 PM PDT PR III -- There is an indirect method you can use to accomplish your goal. Assuming you have entered the committee name for each resource in the Group column in the Resource Sheet, here's how to assign a committee to a task: 1. Open the project in question 2. Select the first task requiring a committee 3. Click the Assign Resources button on the Standard toolbar 4. Expand the Resource list options at the top of the dialog 5. Select the first Filter by checkbox 6. Click the Filter by pick list and select the Group... filter 7. Enter the name of the committee and click OK 8. The resulting list contains the members of the committee, so select everyone and click Assign Just an additional thought to what Julie and Mike said. Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant http://www.msprojectexperts.com "We wrote the book on Project Server" "PR III" <PR microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| How do I get a Text field to show up in the Resource Usage display Posted: 29 Sep 2004 11:53 AM PDT Hi Al, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) Yes - see FAQ Item: 37 - Custom Fields in Tables. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/ Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-) Mike Glen Project MVP microsoft.com wrote: |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2004 10:46 AM PDT You could use something like a gray color for marked tasks. -Jack "Al Wallace" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2004 10:39 AM PDT Thanks Al, I think a little more sharing is in order(I may be getting greedy). I'm looking for an alternative to sending files back and forth if it exists. Am I correct that the Enterprise Solution does support external web-based sharing of the project data? This would be a little over- kill for this initial project but serves to confirm capability. In reading the product info on teh MS Web- site, I also saw some reference to "enabling external" data to allow "partners" to interact with project data, presumably to enable dispersed teams to collaborate on planning and status. Any knowledge of this? The concept seems pretty simple in this internet-based-world but I've just not seen a clear description that exploits this possibility. Rick force and ignorance, works). Aside from of view. want to maintain th Project file. 2000 during |
| Project management in Zimbabwe Posted: 29 Sep 2004 09:07 AM PDT Jan -- Thanks for helping Ben and these good folks in Africa. Based on the unreliability of Internet access there, I definitely think Project Server IS NOT a viable option for these folks. I like your alternate suggestion about sending .mpp files instead. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant http://www.msprojectexperts.com "We wrote the book on Project Server" "Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... |
| Changing durations display from hrs. to days Posted: 29 Sep 2004 08:23 AM PDT Hi Joe, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) Yes - try running Tools/Macro/Macros.../Format_Duration macro. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/> Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-)) Mike Glen MS Project MVP Joe wrote: |
| Can Project be used for production and asset management? Posted: 29 Sep 2004 07:53 AM PDT Micheal can you elaborate on this extensive experience a little. I am trying to get some kind of schedule set up for a Build to Order shop. I've looked at a lot of stuff lately. They all lack the degree of concurrency I need and the ability to distribute task status updates to the web. Recent Project Server experience has shown a lot of promise but there are some hurdles I'm trying to get over and it seems I could really use some input from someone who thinks in terms of hourly production environments rather than historical documentation of a long term start to finish project. Maybe you could chime in on some of my recent threads. It's one of those times where I just need the slightest bit of valueable information and that catalyst could really have a big thought process change I'm sure you've been in a similar situation, it is so frustrating but thrilling to. Thanks "Michael D. Long" <net> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... |
| Why won't my baselined Project Plan decrease in size after deleti. Posted: 29 Sep 2004 06:57 AM PDT I find that if you save a MS Project file using Save As instead of just Save, this will sometimes prompt MS Project to do some file compression/cleanup... in other words, even though you are deleting those attachments, they are still hanging around in the file until the file is "cleaned up". This is similar to doing a Repair and Compact in MS Access. It's easy and usually effective! baselined project plan. size ended up at 120 Why is this? |
| filtering and viewing the Gantt Posted: 29 Sep 2004 05:15 AM PDT Thank you Mike. I did post it newsgroup. during scheduled the |
| Task "Locked-out" for Bookings on P Server 2003 Posted: 29 Sep 2004 01:55 AM PDT Dale, Thanks for that confirmation. I guessed that it would be the situation. Cheers. James.G "Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote: |
| Can I use Microsoft Project to schedule teacher resources and cla. Posted: 29 Sep 2004 12:47 AM PDT Check out SourceForge.net - lots of open source code and I'm pretty sure I saw at least one posting for a calendar and resource scheduling tool... oh and the software is "free" Mark -- __________________________________________________ _______ Mark Durrenberger, PMP Principal, Oak Associates, Inc, www.oakinc.com "Advancing the Theory and Practice of Project Management" __________________________________________________ ______ The nicest thing about NOT planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of worry and depression. - Sir John Harvey-Jones "BobAchgill" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2004 09:13 PM PDT Please add Steelray to the list of viewers you're looking at: http://www.steelray.com <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:340501c4a5da$a20003a0$gbl... |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2004 08:24 PM PDT Try WBS Pro from www.criticaltools.com. It's cheaper ($200) than Visio and works better. Project 2003 contains a WBS wizard but assumes you already have Visio installed. If not, you will have to buy it and I think it's >$400 but not sure. "Kristy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:063c01c4a5d3$d5f014e0$gbl... |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2004 07:55 PM PDT Berni, I could write a book about it!!! (couldn't we all). I've been involved in Programme Planning/Execution for Engineering Design/Manufacture/Installation projects ranging from £2M to £400M (with some projects totalling £2 billion), involving multi-national teams. Essentially I've sat alongside the Project Manager....and watched the whole story unfold....but there is rarely a singular item that sends the whole project into orbit. It's an accumulation of lots of little bits, in conjunction with workscope/product specifications that are very vague, processes that are not fully defined, contractual terms that are not adhered to, changes in the workscope, poor planning, poor management, un-realistic expectations.......and politics! Anything else you require, young man? If so, I'd have to start going into detail. James.G "Berni" wrote: |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2004 07:27 PM PDT Steelray is the leading Microsoft Project viewer: http://www.steelray.com A free 10-day trial can be downloaded there. /Brian <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:05f301c4a5cb$e1213310$gbl... |
| Milestone date calculation logic Posted: 28 Sep 2004 06:16 PM PDT Hi Annabel, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) I believe the answer lies in Constraints. Insert a column for Constrain Type. I suspect the Milestone 4 is set As Late As Possible - they should all be As Soon As Possible - change them and that should fix it. Have you been playing around with schedulling from the Finish Date? If so that might have cause the constraint changes. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/> Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-)) Mike Glen MS Project MVP JulieD wrote: |
| How do I schedule tasks without ANY constraints? Posted: 28 Sep 2004 03:55 PM PDT I have to ask - if you don't want Project to calculate the task start and stop dates for you, why are you using Project???? Task scheduling calculations, the very behaviour you're trying to disable, is the primary reason such software exists in the first place. Why spend hundreds of dollars for software that does that job very very well and then use it to do nothing that you couldn't accomplish just as well with $5 worth of markers and a wall calendar? You say it won't let you pick dates or durations sometimes. I gather by that you mean that you can't put in all three entries without Project sometimes refusing to accept them without changing something. If you can live with the fact that setting dates establishes constraints, you certainly can pick dates and durations but you won't be able to pick them at random without considering the relationship of duration to the start and end dates. It won't let you enter all three of start, finish, AND duration willy-nilly independent of each other. Duration is defined as the number of working time units between the task's start and finish. If we work M-F, 8-5, and I enter a task starting 27 Sep and ending 08 October, its duration cannot be anything except 10 days (the weekend doesn't count since it's non-working time and duration only counts working time) because that is the very definition of duration. Likewise, if I enter it starting 27 Sep and say its duration is 8 days, it will finish 06 Oct and cannot be anything else, again because of the fundamental definition of duration. You can enter 2 of the variables and Project can calculate a third but asking it to allow all three to be input in a manner inconsistent with the fundamental definitions is akin to asking your calculator to allow you to enter 2+3=17.44 without complaint. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "LMPatUSSCO" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
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